The role
- COMP
- $160K - $180K
- EQUITY
- 0.2-0.45%
- LOCATION
- San Francisco
- WORKPLACE
- On-site
- EXPERIENCE
- 3+ years
- VISA
- None
- STACK
- Python
- INDUSTRY
- Healthcare, AI, Fintech
/roles — ROLE_390
Founding Engineer, Forward Deployed
Seed-stage team using AI to speed up claims, authorizations, and payments between healthcare payers and providers
The company
A seed-stage healthcare AI company that reads clinical and billing records to cut administrative work between payers and providers, from claims and prior authorizations to denials and appeals.
- STAGE
- Series A-stage
- FUNDING
- $6M raised
- TEAM
- founding team of <10
- FOUNDED
- 2025
- BACKING
- VC-backed
JD — the work
About the role
As a founding forward deployed engineer, you would spend time alongside provider and payer teams, watch how their work actually happens, and ship full-stack fixes quickly. The split is roughly 60 to 70% building and 30 to 40% with customers: find what is broken, fix it, and deploy, often within a day. You would partner closely with the CEO and the founding engineer, turning tangled healthcare workflows into clean product that lets payers pay providers almost instantly.
What you'll do
- Observe how customers handle claims, denials, prior authorizations, and payments, then ship features that fix the friction
- Run the engineering, product, and design loop on your own, from spotting a problem to deploying the fix
- Debug live problems in payer portals, clinical charts, claims, and work queues, frequently fixing them the same day
- Visit customer locations as needed to learn the product context firsthand and improve how deployments land
- Build and refine features across the stack, backend first, from pilot stage through expansion after signing
What they're looking for
- 3+ years of software engineering experience, strongest on the backend
- Full-stack ability to take a feature from customer conversation to production on your own
- Comfort spending 30 to 40% of your time directly with healthcare customers
- Python proficiency and a habit of shipping at high speed
- Readiness to work on-site in San Francisco and travel to customers when needed